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2, the batch file
April 29, 2010

So yesterday I wrote a script called 2day.pl. It opens up my daily writing file e.g. c:writingdaily20100429.txt in wordpad. Then I decided...

...why not write a batch file called 2.bat which calls 2day.pl? I mean, there's no sense in half-assed laziness. It's paid off already. (Windows start key) R 2 (return) and boom!

Having that utter convenience does trump the utter convenience of web sites I can waste time at. It may take a while to recoup the time writing the script with strictly the keystrokes saved, but taking down one more annoying barrier is a good feeling. It led to several more.

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Achievement unlocked: GOBS OF POETRY
April 20, 2010

I now have a limerick for every day of the year. Sadly, a few may be redundant. But I had ~300 at year's start and 370 now. I'm generally satisfied at the weird rhymes, and I have a small pile of ones that I can't put into a small story yet. Maybe I'll share a few if I haven't blogged a bit. Many are funny months after being written. Sometimes I even (sheepishly) fix the meter. Some are more profane than you'd expect from if you've read my reviews.

It's great to hit my first real organizational writing goal--it'd been for the end of the year, but I figured I could get done early if I sat down and wrote where I got. I've had goals where I said, write X amounts of notes.

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I'm #57/58! I'm #57/58! (I think) and other stuff
March 30, 2010

So using Benford's Law, sort of, I was able to guess what position I am in total hits.

At least, I think you can poke it to say "the distribution of logarithms of natural/quasi random numbers is roughly evenly distributed." Or you can, less pretentiously, say...

(#50's hits) squared / (my hits) = someone's place.

101-that = my current rank.

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basketbally stuff
March 19, 2010

More blogging about basketball. Purdue and Siena played an entertaining game today in the NCAA first rounds. Purdue was fortunate to come away with the win. I was fortunate to be able to watch it all at work--thanks to the work environment and March Madness on Demand. I didn't care if people got a bit upset when I had something to say, because well, they were babbling all morning.

My experience up to the game helped give a lot of new reasons for various truisms, or it made stuff obvious that should've been.

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You are the Ref
March 16, 2010

Had fun going through all of these. Not strictly a game, but an awesome semi-quiz about if something unusual happens in a soccer game, complete with cool illustrations.

You are the Ref

Even for those who find soccer boring, some of the incidents are almost hilarious, and they're all thoughtful. I probably got little more than what you'd expect right from plain guessing, and that's probably because eventually the questions overlapped.

I'm also impressed with how it describes the official's role as being active yet invisible, and how to deal with when laws being laws can suck, or even recognizing and owning up to mistakes made.

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Corey Haim
March 15, 2010

I had another post planned, being a Purdue basketball fan and reacting to Robbie Hummel tear his ACL, then the game on Saturday. I'll let you google the halftime score. It was pretty bad. The upshot is, basketball games provide a good emotional source of frustration that's easier to bounce back from than just plain doldrums. I got a lot of good writing and thinking out of all that, but unfortunately for my team, none of that was review-related.

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I F5'd this way too much
March 02, 2010

Homage to a Hitch-hiker's Guide Character

I mean, I was just completely unsurprised someone did this once I saw the link name.

I actually had a much more serious post and reflective and thoughtful post to write, but this'll have to do, for now.

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